Ushering in a new Twitter star

‘Brenda the Usher’ is latest pseudonymic persona to hit social media, but who is she?

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She is a family court usher “silently watching life played out in court”. She tweets about barristers, judges, court lists and corridor settlements.

Even though she has fewer than 40 tweets to her name, she has gained over 1,700 followers in just a couple of months. Brenda the Usher has become a Twitter sensation — and solicitors, QCs and trainees appear to love her. Some of our favourites include:

All my lovely barristers: two more files to read; half an eye on the telly and waiting for Deliveroo to arrive. It’s such a glamorous life.

Brenda could be an actual usher, one of the much-needed court staff in the Family Divison, preparing the courtroom for all those judges, barristers, and witnesses.

Or, on the other hand, she could be someone else entirely. Her insider knowledge is in no doubt but there’s something about her… Could she be, as one anonymous source posits, “a glove puppet account for one of the High Court judges”?